Alan Shaw said the company was 'going to rebuild our safety culture from the ground up' as three federal agencies announced probes following a worker's death.
As part of the investigation, the federal agency said it would also review a derailment of a further Norfolk Southern train in Sandusky, Ohio, on October 8, 2022.
The FRA will conduct a 60-day safety assessment and issue a public report, adding with the NTSB that Norfolk Southern should act now to improve its safety procedures. FRA, NTSB, and OSHA are investigating after a collision this morning killed a Norfolk Southern conductor in Cleveland. Our thoughts are with the family facing this preventable tragedy. Now more than ever, it is time for stronger freight railroad accountability and safety."Moving forward, we are going to rebuild our safety culture from the ground up," he said."We are going to invest more in safety. This is not who we are, it is not acceptable, and it will not continue.
It said that the rate of train accidents was down 28 percent since 2000, and derailments were down 31 percent in the same time period—but noted this had risen recently.
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